Clothesline vs. Rope
Clotheslinenoun
A rope or cord tied up outdoors to hang clothes on so they can dry.
‘Hang this towel out on the clothesline for me.’;
Ropenoun
(uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line. t
‘Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.’;
Clotheslinenoun
A structure with multiple cords for the same purpose, such as a Hills hoist.
Ropenoun
(countable) An individual length of such material.
‘The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.’;
Clotheslinenoun
The act of knocking a person over by striking his or her upper body or neck with one's arm, as if he or she had run into a low clothesline.
Ropenoun
A cohesive strand of something.
Clotheslineverb
To knock (a person) over by striking his or her upper body or neck with one's arm, as if he or she had run into a low clothesline.
‘The referee called a personal foul, when he clotheslined the running back.’;
Ropenoun
(dated) A continuous stream.
Clotheslinenoun
A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
Ropenoun
(baseball) A hard line drive.
‘He hit a rope past third and into the corner.’;
Clotheslinenoun
a cord on which clothes are hung to dry
Ropenoun
(ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
Ropenoun
(computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
Ropenoun
(Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.s
Ropenoun
(jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
Ropenoun
(nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
Ropenoun
(archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
Ropenoun
(slang) Flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol.
Ropenoun
A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.
Ropenoun
(in the plural) The small intestines.
‘the ropes of birds’;
Ropeverb
(transitive) To tie (something) with something.
‘The robber roped the victims.’;
Ropeverb
(transitive) To throw a rope around (something).
‘The cowboy roped the calf.’;
Ropeverb
(intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
Ropeverb
(slang) To commit suicide
‘My life is a mess, I might as well rope.’;
Ropenoun
A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage.
Ropenoun
A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.
Ropenoun
The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.
Ropeverb
To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.
‘Let us not hang like ropingiciclesUpon our houses' thatch.’;
Ropeverb
To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods.
Ropeverb
To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope.
Ropeverb
To partition, separate, or divide off, by means of a rope, so as to include or exclude something; as, to rope in, or rope off, a plot of ground; to rope out a crowd.
Ropeverb
To lasso (a steer, horse).
Ropeverb
To draw, as with a rope; to entice; to inveigle; to decoy; as, to rope in customers or voters.
Ropeverb
To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing.
Ropenoun
a strong line
Ropenoun
street names for flunitrazepan
Ropeverb
catch with a lasso;
‘rope cows’;
Ropeverb
fasten with a rope;
‘rope the bag securely’;
Rope
A rope is a group of yarns, plies, fibers or strands that are twisted or braided together into a larger and stronger form. Ropes have tensile strength and so can be used for dragging and lifting.
